Educator | Behavioral Health Consultant | Writer | Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist | Patient Advocate 📍Chicago 🙏Mantra: the complex can be simple; kindness and authenticity is easier to cultivate than cruelty and dishonesty 🧬Values: community, humor, curiosity, joy, integrity, compassion, positivity, honesty, creativity, & hope 💫Belief: intimacy, trust, change, and transformation happens through starting, facilitating, and engaging in conversations, experiences, and risks. 👩🏻‍🏫Specialities: grief & loss, sex therapy, behavioral health, psychosocial medical education, marriage and family therapy 🫂Work: collaborative integrative healthcare and education centered on empathy, kindness, and wholehearted wellness (providers, patients, & advocates) 🎓Teaching (medical school faculty - department of OB/GYN, Center for Genetic Medicine): relational & system dynamics, individual & collective resilience, provider burnout & self-care, cognitive dissonance, and the psychosocial impact of illness, genetic diseases, medical diagnosis, & primary care preceptor ✍️Publications: use of self in therapy, boundaries, humor in grief, supervisory dynamics, DEI in medical provider training 🔎Interests: mental/behavioral/medical health equity, power & privilege in medical education, boundaries, mentorship and supervisory relationships, inter-generational transmission of trauma, family of origin, narrative therapy, non-profit and social impact boards 🤝Connect on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/anniebao